Photo gallery: Oil washes ashore on Dauphin Island

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. -- A gallery of Press-Register photographs captures the scene at Dauphin Island today as workers scurry to clean up oil washing ashore on the barrier island more than five weeks after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. The disaster led to the unchecked flow of crude into the Gulf from the damaged well on the sea floor.

View full size(Press-Register/John David Mercer) Bags of oil collected by clean up crews that washed up on the coastline of Dauphin Island, Ala. Tuesday June 1, 2010 as oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continues to spread in the Gulf of Mexico.